October 13, 2017

One day a while back my nerves were frayed by a lousy work week, compounded by the rush-hour traffic and construction on the way over. I figured I could get all that fixed by deploying my mystical equine guru skills, but when I walked up to Hot Shot with my grooming bucket, he just walked away. Heh. That was a good lesson.

(A little out of scope but since I'm thinking about it, the clearest message I've ever heard from him was, "Take off those dang sunglasses, mister.")

October 8, 2017

October 7, 2017

No lesson today - lunged Hot Shot lightly for about ten minutes. He looks good but he pulled up with his front right leg a couple times - not sure whether he's just stiff or if he has something else going on. We took it super easy.

October 3, 2017

The dogs of the Vietnam War (NY Times). "...although it appeared that the dogs were being instructed, it was the soldiers who were actually being taught...Our training instructors seemed to take a perverse pleasure in informing us how dumb we were compared with the dogs."